Hi there,

after banging my head against a wall for a bit I got more indepth with dovecot and am now much more knowledgeable about the system than before.

But I still have two problems:

1.) For some reason my dovecot doesnt log correctly. I put debug_log to -1 and expected to see logs flooding in in my syslog. When I try to log in via telnet over imap and the login succeeds it loggs correctly. But when it fails there is no log entry. Any clue what might cause this?

And now the big fish:

2.) Still hanging to log a user in over telnet via imap. I'm pretty sure i have misconfigured something. first of all:

2a.) Is the *passdb* and *userdb* ind the dovecot.conf still needed in the newest version? It appears to me that all authing runs over the *10-auth.conf*, *auth-ldap.conf.ext* and *dovecot-ldap.conf.ext *and the passdb and userdb settings might just be remnants of the past? or am i wrong here?

2b.) This is my config:

*# 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf# OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.8 ext4auth_mechanisms = plain logindefault_login_user = vmaildisable_plaintext_auth = nofirst_valid_gid = 2222first_valid_uid = 2222listen = *mail_access_groups = vmailmail_debug = yesmail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%npassdb { args = scheme=SHA1 /etc/dovecot/passwd driver = passwd-file}protocols = imapservice auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = root}service imap-login { process_min_avail = 1 user = vmail}ssl = nouserdb { args = uid=2222 gid=2222 home=/var/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes driver = static}*

*hosts = [ http://mailserver.realsecure.de/hostname].[domainname].dedebug_level = -1auth_bind = yesauth_bind_userdn = cn=%u,ou=People,dc=**[domainname]*

*,dc=debase = ou=People,dc=[domainname],dc=deuser_attrs = uidNumber=uiduser_filter = (&(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(uid=%u))pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=passwordpass_filter = (&(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(uid=%u))iterate_attrs = uid=useriterate_filter = (objectClass=inetOrgPerson)*

The user I try to log in with is:

*cn=Klara Fall,ou=People,dc=[domainname],dc=de* *objectclasses: inetOrgPerson, organizationalPerson, person, simpleSecurityObject,top* *sn=Fall* *userPassword is set* *mail: klara.fall@[domainname].de* *uid: klarafall*

I want to try with auth bind because I think i understood whats going on with that.

When i try to a login klarafall [password] it gives me a NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed.

Any clues? This would be much easier with logging... but see 1.) :) I feel I'm not far from the finish line.

Best, David